Richard Blake

Richard Blake (died September 1971) was a Senator from Louisiana from the US Democratic Party, and he chaired the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence in 1971. He was shot by CIA agent John Donovan, who believed that Blake was involved in the assassination of John F. Kennedy; Blake was one of few United States senators to be assassinated.

Biography
Richard Blake was born in Louisiana, and he worked as a district attorney after graduating from law school. Blake was elected to the Senate as a US Democratic Party member, and he had secret links to the American Mafia. In November 1963, he was said to have conspired with Don Sal Marcano to assassinate President John F. Kennedy to further his political career; he kept this fact secret. Senator Blake chaired the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence in 1971, examining Lincoln Clay's violent takeover of New Orleans from the Marcano crime family in 1968, specifically how Clay was able to take down the family. Blake interviewed CIA agent John Donovan on the events of 1968, and he interrogated him about the murders of several Marcano members and extraordinary feats that he had managed to achieve with Donovan's help. At the end of the hearing, Donovan strangely told Blake that he had a question for him, asking him where he was on the day that Kennedy was assassinated. He began to throw accusations against Blake, and he drew a silenced pistol and shot Blake in the head and chest. Donovan then told the other committee members that he wanted everyone involved in the assassination to know that he was coming after them, and he made his way out of the room.